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Leeman Charles Parker,
Could you e-mail me waynenparker@yahoo.com and enclose your new FTDNA Kit number? I looked for your name in the members list but couldn't find it.
Wayne
The Parker yDNA project is active again so you should soon learn something from Greg Parker or Wayne Parker.
I recently had my test added to Family Tree DNA. Does this help with identifying which Parker strand I might belong too?
Hello again, Leeman Charles Parker - Earlier this fall, you asked several times about your chances with testing; several of us here at Parker Heritage responded to your question(s), but I do not know even now if we answered you well enough. Here is another try:
The only steps I ever recommend are joining the FTDNA Parker Project and YDNA testing through FTDNA aka Family Tree of Houston, Texas.
Yes, using Family Tree, you give yourself the very best chances if you l) Google FTDNA Parker Project with its two Parker administrators, Dennis West and his cousin Gregory Parker, and join the new Family Tree Parker Project; 2) purchase their YDNA test with the most markers you want, at least 64 up to 111, and then 3) gather your patience to wait for the lab responses.
Yes, some people find that their YDNA tests do not match anyone in the existing huge database at Family Tree. If that happens to you, it may mean that male Parkers with YDNA like yours have not yet tested with FTDNA, but may in the future. Or, also in very rare cases, it could mean that the tested male matches another surname bloodline in the database, and FTDNA will put him in touch with them.
About Ancestry's test results you already have, that data can be compared only to whatever data Ancestry relies upon.
Ancestry stopped offering a YDNA test about 2014. Of Ancestry's available test types today, they are neither accepted by the FTDNA Parker Project nor integrated into FTDNA's database/spreadsheets or Family Groups. Only test results from FTDNA labs are accepted.
Patricia Ross Parker, Ed.D., Parker Heritage website moderator and researcher for Parker YDNA Project Family Groups.
I recently complete the DNA test through Ancestry. Can these results be useful in the Parker research?
Hello, Leeman Charles Parker - Would you have any interest in a Crawford Parker born 1856 Louisiana, son of Thomas J. Parker and Rhoda McLellan who married in Bienville Parish, Louisiana? They lived in Rapides Parish on the 1860 Census. They lived in Bienville Parish on the 1870 census. Crawford lived in Sabine Co. Texas on the 1880 Census. At that time he was 24 and married to a Catherine Unk who was 29. The parents of Thomas J. Parker came from Alabama as adults.
For that Crawford Parker, James was never shown as part of his name on censuses.
Patricia Ross Parker, researcher